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Sussex Blazing Saddles was made possible by a range of funders & supporters:

Funders

National Lottery Heritage Fund, with special thanks for National Lottery Players

The UK Government & Brighton & Hove City Council through the Shared Prosperity Fund

BN9 Arts Growth Fund through Creative Newhaven & Newhaven Enterprise Zone

Rother District Council

Worthing Theatres & Museums

South East Dance

Supporters

The Keep, East Sussex County Archive

West Sussex Records Office

Bexhill

• Bexhill Museum, especially Julian Porter & Rohan Jayasekera
• Bexhill Wheelers, especially Ian Hollidge
• Heritage Bexhill
• Community Supporters

Worthing

• Worthing Museum & Art Gallery, especially Gerry Connolly
• Worthing Climate Resilience Centre
• Stitch It Don’t Ditch It

Newhaven

• Creative Newhaven
• Newhaven Museum
• Newhaven Historical Society
• Newhaven Active Travel, Jamie Lloyd
• Sussex Community Development Association
• Haven Young Creatives, Siou Hannam
• Lewes District Council

Brighton

• Brighton & Hove City Council, especially Ian Baird & Kelly Martin
• The BMWs, Brighton Multicultural Women’s Cycling Group
• Brighton Bike Hub, Cicely Lloyd & Duncan Blinkhorn
• Jubilee Library
• South East Dance
• Carlton Hill School
• The Living Coast UNESCO Biosphere Region
• Sew Fabulous
• Found Cafe

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Huge thanks to everyone

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Further reading

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The SBS team & archive volunteers visited Bexhill Museum for a look around the archive & a talk by curator Julian Porter in April 2024.

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The SBS team & volunteer researchers made two visits to West Sussex Records Office: January 2024 & March 2024

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The SBS team & archive research volunteers made 3 visits to The Keep: March 2024, January 2024 & July 2023

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Huge thanks for all the wonderful volunteer archive researchers who delved into the archives & dug out stories, & special thanks to Heritage Consultant Nicola Benge who led archive research training & the volunteers.

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More soon

Gerry Connolly, Senior Curator, Worthing Museum & Art Gallery delved into the Museum’s Costume Archive to share a fascinating selection of women’s costumes from 1890-1928. He showed stunning examples the kinds of clothing restrictions & fashion architecture women of that period had to endure & how dramatically things changed by the 1920s.

Amongst the items was a convertible horse riding outfit for a young woman, with a long skirt to cover jodhpurs, which had buttons at the waistline, to pull up the skirt out of the way whilst riding. Reminiscent of the convertible cyclewear which inspired the Blazing Saddles show costumes.

Photos © KP Projects CIC 2024

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Images © KP Projects CIC 2024

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